The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
DR.. FORESTS Cardiff Appears to HaV
Stirred Up Quite Breeze.

DR.. FORESTS Cardiff Appears to Have
Stirred Up Quite Breeze.
CHARLESTON Dec. 4-Doctors some-
times dip into politics without any serious
consequences to themselves, their patients
or the public. In this State there are
several doctors in politics. In Charleston
there is one doctor on the Board of Alder
men and one on the Board of School Com
missioners In the Legislature now in session
there are a half dozen doctors scattered
through the House and Senate. One doctor
who is a member Of the House is the most
cantankerous and aggressive of the whole
124 Representatives, and is known as the
leader of the ''three for quarter combin-
alton, which started several years ago with
the avowed purpose of running the State
government on about the same basis as one
| lets out the contract for furnishing beef for
the Almshouse 1t may be mentioned in
passing that the combination died a natural
death.
No doctor, however, who laid aside his
lancet TO put his finger in the political pot
ever succeeded in making the pot boil more
furiously than DIR. Forrest, of this city,
whose recent "cardn has been published in
the columns of the MORNING NEWS. The
broth which was produced by the mixture
of medicine, politics and religion turns out
to have been al exceedingly nauseous dose,
nearly over the whole nation DIR. Forrest
is a son Of the distinguished John Forrest,
d. D., who for many years was the pastor
of the Scotch Presbyterian church of this
| city.
The Scotch Presbyterian church..is one Of
| the Oldest and most exclusively arlstocratic
ecclesiastical institutions in this venerable
and exclusively aristocratic city. Only the
| creme de la creme of the ancient Presby-
| terian families attend it. Ex-Judge Ma
grath, A. s. J. Perry, the Mures, the Pauls,
| the Hemphills, the FORESTS, the Robertsons,
and others, are in its fold. 1t is the only
| church in the city that has splendid organ,
and clings TO the old custom of having a
| precentor to raise the hymns.
| DIR. Forests card created decided sem
sation. Ii attracted attention to feature
| of the Democratic ticket which had struck
some people before, but which is rather the
result of accident than of design, viz. the
presence ON 1t of an unusual number Of Cath
oics. But that this is the result OF the tac-
tics of the Roman hierarchy nobody be-
lieves who lives in Charleston, and knows
the gentlemen who represent the Roman
hierarchy here. As matter of fact there
| are four or five Catholics on the Board of
Aldermen (twenty-four), and two on the
| Board of School Commissioners, but nobody
supposes that the city will be Romanized
by this fact.
lt Is tnOugnb mere budD JDe Ttdl BTleNdncS
of DR.. Forrest is the fact that the city
under contract made over ten years ago
makes an annual appropriation of $4,000 to
the ladies of the order of Our Lady of Mercy
in consideration of their care of $50 orphan
children. The city orphan asylum, one OF
the finest in the South, would be charged
with the care of these orphans otherwise.
Its doors are open to all young children who
have lost their fathers and whose mothers
are unable to support them. As is we'll
known the Protestant form of religion is
used in this institution, although large
proportion of the inmates are the offspring
| of Catholics. 1t was urged when this con-
tract was made that Catholics had some
rights as well as Protestants and the plea
was admitted, so the city agreed to pay the
Sisters of Mercy $1,000 toward the support
of stated number of orphans and this, it
is said, has annoyed DR.. Forrest and other
jealous pious persons.
There is nothing new in municipal poll
tics. The Republican and United Labor
parties have coalesced as was predicted in
this correspondence, and will bring out o
ticket. The Democratic ticket, however
| will be elected without doubt.